Property Record
321 E MEINECKE AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Lloyd Barbee House |
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| Reference Number: | 223966 |
| Location (Address): | 321 E MEINECKE AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1890 |
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| Survey Date: | 2012 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
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| Wall Material: | Wood |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Lloyd A. Barbee House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/7/2019 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/15/2019 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. Attorney at Barbee and Jacobson City Directory entry 1967: Barbee and Jacobson (Lloyd A. Barbee and Thomas M. Jacobson) Attorneys at Law, 110 E. Wisconsin Ave, Suite 1010. Located in the Fred Pabst Building, which was demolished in 1981. 1961 through 1962, Lloyd Barbee was an executive member of the WI State Branch NAACP School protests were organized against the Milwaukee School Board for creating and maintaining segregation in schools by MUSIC (Milwaukee United School Integration Committee). They were against intact busing, in which overcrowded black schools would bus their students to predominately white schools, where black children were kept separate and treated as second class citizens. When these protests failed, Lloyd Barbee filed Amos et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee, 408 F. Supp. 765 (1976), a federal lawsuit against the Milwaukee Public School Board on June 17, 1965. It went all the way to the Supreme Court, and in 1979, the judge ruled that segregation was purposely enacted by the school board, and that plans needed to be developed for the school system’s desegregation. Lloyd Barbee was an assemblyman for Vel Phillips' Open Housing Ordinance in 1967. House fire week of St. Patrick's Day 2023 caused extensive damage |
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| Bibliographic References: | Milwaukee Star Newspaper, 10/21/1967, pg 1, 14. "University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee." March on Milwaukee Libraries Digital Collection. N.p., 2016. Web. 05 Aug. 2016. Wright's Milwaukee (Milwaukee County, WI) City Directory. St. Paul: Wright Directory, 1967. Print. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |